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Kiwasa Neighborhtxxl House, Ij(K)k()ut Emeifjoncy Aid Socit^ly, Employment Skills for Women, Fineday Family Shelter Society, the YWCA's Crabtree Corner F'amily Centre and Triage Emergency Services and Care Society are just a few of the Vancouver organizations that benefit fiom the generosity of those who donate to Beth Israel.
"As you may not be aware, some of the people who come to Triage in crisis do so with only the clothes on their backs," wT)te Twyla Lewis, of Triage Emergency Services and Cane S<x;iety, in a letter to Beth Israel. "Without donations such as yours, we would be unable to keep up with the demand."
Kjircn O'Shannacei-y, of I^ook-out Emergency Aid Society, sjiid her organization has had to turn away people looking for shelter because of the increasing number of homeless coming for a.ssistance.
"Yom- donation of wami winter coals will make a big dilTer-ence," she wrote to Ms. Shapray. "We am help prepare the.se men and women for the weather only lxH;ause of your generosity and your willingness to go out of your way to bring the articles to us."
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Another project that's been under way for two yeare to help the less fortunate on the Downtown East Side of Vancouver is the East End Fund Project thmugh Or Shalom synagogue.
The fund is "to provide ftxxl for needy people in the East End |in a wayl that would be dignified and in keeping with the principles of Uedakah (charity) where we don't know who gets it and we're not directly involved in it, a very anonymous kind of thing," said the synagogue's Frank Segal.
The fund is used to buy food coupons that are distributed through social service agencies
in the East End. Every $ 100 donated to the fund through the synagogue will provide food for 20 people. Last year Or Slialom rai.sed about $1,500.
Or Shalom is participating in the pn)ject with a numlx;r of oilier organizations including the Vancouver Native Health Society, Vancouver Second Mile Society and the Downtown Easlside Youth Activities Society.
Donations, which are tax-de-ductable, can be made to the Or Shalom East End Fund.
Along with winter coats and financial donations, conUibutions of food arc still welcome through the Project Isaiah program. Through Project Isaiah, initiated by Norman Franks of tlie Jewish National Fund, hundreds of paper shopping bags were distributed at .synagogues and Tal-nmd Torah schcx)! in the Ix)wer Mainland just before the High Holy Days. Members of the tx)m-munity were asked to return them with non-perishable items before Kol Nidre or after Yom Kippur.
Hundreds of bags were relumed resulting in a successful f(X)d-collection campaign for the Jewish Food Bank. Mr. Franks was not too sui-prised at the success of the campaign.
"I fully believe that if people are asked to bring fcxxl items to .synagogues, they would intend to do it," he said. "The problem is, when they get home and get busy with other things, they forget to bring it back at a given point in time. If, however, they are given something to take home with them, like a shopping bag, it's there in front of them, in their home. That will serve as a reminder to them that they should be doing something for Jewish people in town who are less fortunate than themselves."
Project Isaiah shopping bags are still available and are being accepted at all the synagogues in the Lower Mainland as well as Talmud Torah school. □
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